What sticks to the roof of your mouth? What goes best with jelly on bread? What comes creamy or chunky? The answer is peanut butter.
November is National Peanut Butter Lovers Month. Americans will celebrate by eating more than 65 million pounds of peanut butter during the month of November. Southern Peanut Growers, representing southeastern peanut...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers – 11/17/16
I got back from California about 10:30 Monday night. I had to drag two suitcases out of the car that felt like they weighed 100 pounds.
In fact, my wife’s was one pound over the limit. We were checking in at curbside. The weigh-man was very pleasant, but said one pound was going to cost $100...
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Letter to the editor: Fighting for those who faithfully served
I grew up in southwest Iowa on my parents’ farm. Our parents instilled in me the importance of hard work -- and when our work was done, we would go help a neighbor who might be in need. This story is not unique.
Here in Iowa, we work hard for everything we have and then help...
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Genevieve Blake
Jarryd and Lyndsey Van Soelen of Pella are the parents of a daughter, Genevieve Blake, born at 7:55 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, 2016. She weighed 7 pounds 11.4 ounces and measured 20.75 inches long.
Grandparents are Scott and Gayla Van Soelen of Grinnell and Rod and Sandy Lanser of Pella.
Great-grandparents are Millie Van Soelen of...
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Wilhelmina Monsma, 96
Wilhelmina “Billie” Monsma, 96, of Pella passed away Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House. Memorial services were held Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Trinity Reformed Church, Pella. Family committal service preceded the service at Oakwood Cemetery, Pella. Memorials are suggested for Hospice of Pella or Lynnville Historical Society.
Wilhelmina Terpstra was born...
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Gertrude Schnell, 91
Gertrude (Jansen) Schnell, 91, of Pella and formerly of Sully, passed away Saturday morning, Nov. 12, 2016, at Grinnell Health Care Center.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 1:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church west of Sully. Family committal service preceded the service at St. Andrew’s Cemetery. Memorials are suggested for the St....
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Cadie Horn makes 26 pillowcase dresses for needy girls
Cadie Horn, 11-year-old daughter of James and Neisha Horn of Newton, has been very interested in packing shoeboxes for Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child, which her church, Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Newton, has done for the last several years. She shops for items to put in the boxes and raises money to pay to ship...
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